Religious Orders and Communities. Religious Orders and Communities, religious bodies, specifically of the Christian Church, whose members live under a distinctive rule, or discipline. ... The abbot was given full patriarchal authority over the community, but was himself subject to the rule and was required to consult the members of the community on important questions. ... Offshoot communities quickly sprang up in Cyprus, Messina, Marseille, and parts of England, where they were known as White Friars. ... In England the Dominicans acquired the name of Black Friars from the habit they wore...

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The theme of religion and community is not foreign to Toni Morrison. ... It deals with the individuals who constitute the community of slavery. ... Her mother-in-law, Baby Suggs was the heart of this community. ... The Clearing was equally important to the community as it was to Sethe. ... She and the community continue to shun each other. ...

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Participants were then read a children's story and given the empathy measure again, to see if they expressed more empathy after hearing about a sympathetic protagonist. ... Other scores increased after hearing the story, indicating a trend that storytelling is an effective method of increasing expressions of empathy. ... Based on previous research, it was hypothesized that children would exhibit higher levels of empathy after hearing a story with a sympathetic, school-aged protagonist than when simply asked questions from an empathy measure. ... Participants were obtained through a pr...

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Children and Bilingualism According to the 1990 United States Census, one in seven or 31.8 million people speak a language other than English in their home. In the past, second generation children were encouraged to adopt the customs, culture, and language of what was identified as the majority cu...

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The theme of religion and community is not foreign to Toni Morrison. ... It deals with the individuals who constitute the community of slavery. ... Her mother-in-law, Baby Suggs was the heart of this community. ... The Clearing was equally important to the community as it was to Sethe. ... She and the community continue to shun each other. ...

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Having been created in Syria, Matthew's Gospel is centered around references to aspects of the religious beliefs of the people of his community. ... Because both these groups inhabited the Serian area, the author of Matthew constructed the material presented in the infancy narrative with details that favored many aspects present in the beliefs of the majority of the community. ... This allowed the people of Matthew's community to relate the text to certain beliefs and traditions that existed in either of their religions. ... With these conditions, and the fear of persecution, it...

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The reoccurring themes of movement, community, nature, and of course freedom are what ultimately develop this sense of heroism. ... The theme of community in this story also plays off of the sense of motion. The only community which Huck has any experience with is the band of travelers who have unexpectedly united on the raft. ... However, this community of Huck's is very faulty and fragile, held together only by the collective motivation to journey on. ... There is also a community sense that affects Huck when he is off the raft but it is portrayed as an evil and driving force beh...

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His study shows that intervention from families and communities can really have an impact on children's lives. ... It is easy to sit around and wait to punish a child after they have done wrong, but if action is taken in order to prevent their wrongdoing, then not only would that help the child to learn right from wrong faster, but it would save more money in court hearings, spare feelings of unknowing parents of delinquent children and lessen the headaches of the judges and police that have to handle the juvenile crimes. ...

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THE ELDERLY With a falling birth-rate and people living longer, it is inevitable that our community is ageing. ... Hearing. • When there is hearing loss it is usually in the high frequency range resulting in the inability to hear high pitched sounds. • A common way to compensate for hearing trouble is to increase volume. ... The most serious effect of hearing loss is withdrawal from others. ...

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When a community looks only for evidence of guilt and ignores or suppresses all contradictory evidence, the results are a witch-hunt. And a witch-hunt was developing in Salem as the community felt itself so beset by evil that it was no longer capable of perceiving the good. ... The girls could have been victims of ergot poisoning from the bread they ate; but if that were the case most local communities including Salem town would have reported outbreaks in juvenile. ... Rebecca Nurse was a kind 71-year-old lady who suffered from a hearing problem, which made colonists fear her and view her as a...

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When a community looks only for evidence of guilt and ignores or suppresses all contradictory evidence, the results are a witch-hunt. And a witch-hunt was developing in Salem as the community felt itself so beset by evil that it was no longer capable of perceiving the good. ... The girls could have been victims of ergot poisoning from the bread they ate; but if that were the case most local communities including Salem town would have reported outbreaks in juvenile. ... Rebecca Nurse was a kind 71-year-old lady who suffered from a hearing problem, which made colonists fear her and view her as a...

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Also infections or hearing loss problems arise because of loud music played on the headphones or hearing pieces. ... What earphones do is wear-out the ear drums and this can become a hearing loss problem in the long run " (Ebben). ...

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The answer then lies, according to Klinenberg, in the social environments of each community. ... This area, which in the book Ethnic Chicago Jorge Caruso and Eduardo Camacho define by its "lively streets, taco stands, and bodegas", has supplied a number of jobs to the community and has attained a level of stability which keeps generations of families in close proximity to each other. ... Even these members of the community, who encounter language and ethnic barriers everyday, still participate in the bustling commercial life of the area. ... Many of the problems which caused the great popu...

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With their political clout, they will expect the government, corporate America, the research community and the health care sector to meet their growing needs. ... As people grow older, eyesight and hearing are usually the two senses that will deteriorate before the body gives way. ... Retirement communities will be growing tremendously, for those who are physically and mentally in...

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If you were a Branch Davidian prior to April 19, 1993, you thought that Christ lived on a threadbare piece of land ten miles east of Waco, Texas called Mount Carmel. Actually, it was nowhere near the side of a mountain; instead it was more of a slight swelling of the earth on the horizon. He had ...

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What impact did the Cuban Missile Crisis on your community or family? ... All up till that last hearing when they got all of the tapes, and I guess I was extremely disappointed, and for some reason I kind of elevate the president more than a regular person. ... Even though I would have liked to see him go to jail or some kind of a punishment hearing, but I think his punishment was the disgrace that he was put into. ...

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He was born, on Feb. 11, 1847, to middle-class parents in the bustling port of Milan, Ohio: a community that, next to Odessa, Russia, was the largest wheat shipping center in the world. ... It was around this time that Tom contracted scarlet fever and began to lose his hearing. ... Later, when he had the means to have an operation that had a good chance of restoring some of his hearing, he refused to act upon the option. ...

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Although some safety measures were taken at other schools the people of America had no idea that it would happen all over the nation, affecting more than just the small community of Moses Lake Washington. Since the shooting many counseling programs have been installed at the schools in the area and in the community. ... During my freshmen year I remember getting on the school bus to go home and hearing the news about Springfield. ...

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It includes a vast number of aspects and elements: the slave ship, the sense of community, the function of the sea, the horrible treatment and condition of life in the slave ship, moral and physical suffering, darkness and the violence towards the women slaves. ... The second function of the slave ship was to build a new community after the dispersal of the previous one. ... In this way the slave ship became the symbol of the community of a "lost people" and it contrasted the phenomenon of dispersion that characterized the Diasporic relations. ...

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The president has the ability to make this tough decision because he or she has a cool deliberative sense of community. ... They deserve a chance to be an active part of the United States community without being judged or discriminated against. ... We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life, the driven ones, the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better"(Mitt Romney). ...

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In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the global feminist social movement worked to introduce this idea to the human rights community and by the early years of the 21st century, succeeded in establishing the right to protection from gender violence as a core dimension of women's human rights. ... These reports helped to define violence against women as a human rights violation along with the duty of states to exercise "due diligence " in preventing violence against women in the family, the community, and the public space. ...

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THE SUPREME COURT OF CANADA AND THE `LEGAL AND POLITICAL STRUGGLE' OVER INDIGENOUS RIGHTS[*] ABSTRACT/RESUME Many Indian leaders have recognized that the Supreme Court of Canada has changed direction very significantly on issues of treaty and aboriginal rights. As a result, Indian ...

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A departure from what an ordinary reasonable member of the community would do in the same community. ... The defendant clearly owed a duty of care (to ensure that the passengers of the Titanic arrived safely to New York), there was a breech of duty (failure to be cautious after hearing seven iceberg warnings) and the plaintiff definitely suffered a loss because as a result of that breech. ...

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Wolfgang's mother, Anna Maria Pertl, was born to a middle class family of local community leaders. ... After hearing the news of his wife's death, Leopold negotiated a better post for his son as court organist in Salzburg and Wolfgang returned soon after. ... Mozart was well regarded in the Freemason community, attending meetings and being involved in various functions. ...

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In an article by Rocky Mountain Power, Blue Sky Renewable Energy promotes getting involved with wind energy within the Rocky Mountain States to help fund renewable energy resources for local communities. The article says "Blue Sky customers have also helped fund many new community-based renewable energy projects. ...

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